Surface color perception and equivalent illumination models

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1-18

  Brainard, David H ^a   Maloney, Laurence T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color constancy; Computational models; Equivalent illumination model; Lightness constancy; Object surface perception; Surface color perception; Surface lightness perception

Indexed keywords

RETINOIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLOR; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRETINOIN;

EID: 80051737666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.5.1     Document Type: Article

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